Howard Davis Jr dies aged 59

Very nice. Rest easy, Mr. Davis.......

 

:goodGreat post, neighbor!! Cheers! RIP Howard. One of the greatest amateurs ever and a pretty damn good pro as well.

 

I watched Davis live as he soared through the Olympics. His story put a dramatic background to his rise to Olympic gold. Unfortunately his style and lack of power did not translate well to the pro ranks. Really shocked at his cancer diagnosis as he was a health nut.

 

Sad news R.I.P. Howard Davis Jr.

 

Surprised and saddened to hear this. RIP.

 

Sad news and especially so for such a clean living man

 

RIP - I remember watching him in the Olympics and was truly in awe of his talent and speed.

 

Really felt for him after the Rosario fight.

RIP,champ.

 

There are also healthy and unhealthy vegetarians. Seventh Day Adventists have been found to have a lung cancer rate 21% lower than average. (Breast cancer is 85% lower than average.)

Philosophy and idealism are no excuse for vegetarianism. If meat gives you the runs, like it gave Gandhi, then stay away from it. Vegetables can give others the runs. Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, lived to be 90. On the other hand, Fred DeLuca, the co-founder of Subway, only lived to 67. Both Sanders and DeLuca died of leukemia, which Sanders also contracted at 90, while DeLuca was diagnosed at 64.

Maybe the moral of that story is that you can either eat fresh and die young, or eat healthy, enjoy the germ killing benefits of alcohol consumption, and smoke air dried tobacco rather than tobacco cured with carcinogenic sugar, and live to be 100 while puffing away like George Burns and Eubie Blake. At 91, Joyce Randolph, Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners" and last surviving cast member hold court at Sardi's drinking White Cadillac's. She thinks the combination of milk and Dewar's Scotch does her stomach good. If Hippocrates was right that all disease begins in the gut, then maybe that explains her continuity of active good health.

Grete Waitz, the nine time winner of the NYC Women's Marathon and first woman to run a marathon in under two and a half hours contracted terminal cancer at age 51, which killed her at 57.

Arthur Ashe was an active tennis champion who also didn't smoke or drink, and was ranked 14th in the world when a major heart attack ended his career in July 1979 at age 35. (Quadruple bypass surgery saved his life, but HIV tainted blood transfused during his second heart surgery led to his eventual death.)

Howard's mother died of a sudden heart attack at age 37. Ashe's mother died of a heart attack at age 27, and Jim Fixx died at age 52 while on a ten mile run not far from where I worked the job I retired from. Fixx had originally taken up running because of the pervasive history of heart disease in his family. The ultra marathon hero of Born to Run, Micah True, died on a 12 mile run at age 58, found to have an enlarged left ventricle, and other heart related issues which commonly develop in extreme athletes.

Not only is there no correlation between health and fitness, but there's actually a trade-off where the immune system breaks down, free radicals attack, injuries result, and excessively exerted hearts form scar tissue. There are plenty of natural poisons in natural foods.

162 mg of daily preventative non-enteric coated aspirin is a current trend for trying to protect against heart disease, cancers and strokes in men. Research shows it takes a minimum of five years for optimal benefits from daily aspirin use to accumulate, and every health care professional I've met for the last 15 years is taking it. I've also been dosing myself with aspirin every day since 1998. So far, so good. All the internal organs in my torso remain healthy, and I'm now the oldest person in the known history of my family to retain all my internal organs by a margin of over ten years.

My health experiments for 2016 will be trials with probiotics and activated charcoal. There have been accounts of liberation from kidney dialysis and high blood pressure with activated charcoal, a substance which is as mainstream as medicine gets, that produces results readily measurable.

Bad genetics are one curse, but sometimes the cure is what causes the disease. A book titled, "Are You Confused?" probably did more than any other book to convert people in the States to vegans in the early 1970's. Then the author, Paavo Airola, died of a stroke at age 64. Roy Walford, the medical doctor who wrote the 120 Year Diet, fell well short of that mark when he died of ALS at age 79, which may have been brought on by the very caloric restriction plan he was pioneering. Stuart Berger, the author of "How to be Your Own Nutritionist," was another medical doctor who died of a massive heart attack at age 39, weighing 369 pounds.

One book I have on Syrian cookery was published in 1962, and the author's immigrant mother from the suburbs of Damascus was the recipe provider who also modeled photographic demonstrations of the food preparation. Raw red meat and dairy products are a staple of Syrian and Lebanese cuisine, but they come from grass fed rather than grain fed sources. That author's mother lived another healthy and happy 45 years into the new millennium before finally passing at age 107. So much for the supposed hazards of red meat. (Then again, raw meat doesn't contain the cancer causing mutagens contained in cooked meat.)

Robert Atkins gets a pass, because he died at 72 after slipping and whacking his head on a snow slick sidewalk in late April while walking to work in leather soled dress shoes. His "PC" critics are lying when they claim he collapsed from a heart attack, and they know they are lying, to try promoting their "Animals are people too!" and "Diet for a Small Planet" grain based agenda. His mother Norma cheated on his plan from time to time, but survived her son's fatal accident and lived into her 90's.

We don't know what role indoor and outdoor respiratory pollutants might have played in Howard's development of lung cancer, but in the early 1980's I worked at a hospital where the personnel Manager was a chain smoker of More Menthol 120s. The hospital president was also a chain smoker, and when he quit the habit, he became an evangelical fanatic against smoking, as many do. (In this case it was fortuitous though, with the eventual banning of smoking from hospitals.) Rather than quit, that personnel manager put an air ionizer in her office so the smoke wouldn't smell or offend visitors, and left her door closed when she was inside as a courtesy.

Instead, by magnifying the effect of each cigarette she smoked ten or 20 fold or more, she quickly developed terminal cancer and died at age 42, leaving behind a widower and young child. That child barely reached full growth before also dying of cancer. Industrial ozone machines are used to take the stench out of smoking rooms in hotels and motels, but the instructions on this equipment explicitly state not to occupy the room while they're in operation. Yet in the 1980's, they were actually marketed as health enhancers for home use.

Did Howard Davis, Jr., in a bid to protect and preserve his health, use an ozone machine to ionize where he lived or worked?

Famously, Gene Tunney wanted to have the windows at Stillman's opened to bring in some fresh air. Johnny Dundee's legendary reply, "Fresh air? Why the stuff is likely to kill us!" may actually have not been too far off the mark in the NYC of the 1920's. If you want to die of lung disease from environmental pollutants, forget about smoking. Just deeply inhale "fresh" air from the great outdoors while running when the sun is up, with all the ozone particulates that come with it, and gulp it down with your mouth, instead of using your nature designed nose to filter those particles and pollutants out. (However, boxers like Howard always knew to get up early and finish their running before sunrise.)

 

When Springs Toledo released this article in June 2012, I told him in a PM that the first name which came to my mind was Howard Davis, Jr.

www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles-frontpage/14764-small-consolation-for-plant-eaters

 

wow. informative post.

 

Howard was a great boxer, and from what I've seen of him, a great guy. I am a fan of him, so sad to hear of his passing. Howard was a true class act!

 

Well said.

Rest in Peace, HDJr.

 

Was hoping he would win this fight. Very talented and nice guy who should have had a greater career if the right attitude and people were involved. Will always believe he could have possibly taken Camacho had they fought in the 82-83 time period. RIP Howard.